Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Nominate GroupMail as Your Favorite Windows Email Program in 2012

Hi Group Mailers! I was reading an article on About.com Email today and noticed a call to nominate my favorite Windows Email Program for the 2012 About.com Email Readers Choice Awards. I immediately started to daydream about how cool it would be if all GroupMail customers rallied and nominated our GroupMail Email Newsletter software as [...]

Blog Issues, Apologies, Best Wishes and New Releases

Some of you may have noticed that all of our December and January blog posts did a David Copperfield and disappeared overnight. If you didn’t notice, then you need to start reading our blog more. To summarize the disappeared posts, they included incredible tips, novel insights, original Christmas poetry and best wishes for a happy [...]

Black Friday 2011

While Black Friday 2011 technically refers to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day (November 25th, 2011 this year), it is actually beginning on Thursday, November 24th (Thanksgiving Day) for some retailers. Only several days after the king of Black Friday, Wal*Mart, announced that they would be manning their cash registers at 10pm on Thanksgiving Day to [...]

Hotmail Inbox Delivery: Will Your Newsletter Avoid the Hotmail Spam Folder?

Hotmail inbox delivery rates will decline as a result of recent changes made to Hotmail spam filters, which are now set to scrutinize even opt-in email newsletter and email marketing campaigns from legitimate senders. Why ? As part of a recent war on graymail, Hotmail has established some new hurdles for getting email delivered to [...]

New Twitter Direct Message Phishing Scam: “Bad blog going around about you, seen it yet?”

Apparently, there is a new Twitter Direct Message (DM) Phishing scam being distributed at the moment. I received a twitter Direct Message notification from a friend of ours via an email in our helpdesk tonight. According to the DM, our friend was warning that there was a “bad blog going around about you, seen it [...]

Steve Jobs Quotes

Here are a few of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in [...]

Product Launch: New GroupMail HTML Form Builder

Today we’re delighted to launch the latest addition to our GroupMail suite: GroupMail Forms. This new HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, manage newsletter sign-ups and even handle event registrations, without writing a single line of code. GroupMail Forms is perfect if you need: – An opt-in or opt-out email subscription form to [...]

Email Use Increasing for Boomers and Geezers

Email is dead! Long live email! According to a 2010 ComScore report analyzing Internet trends, web-based email use declined 6% from 2009 to 2010 as mobile use increases, predominantly among younger Internet users. Source: ComScore Report: Email Evolution: Web-based email shows signs of decline in the U.S. while mobile email usage on the rise But [...]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ) Acquires Our Email Marketing Software, GroupMail for $75 Million

Update: GroupMail CEO Robert Martin says “We can now confirm that Google has signed a deal to acquire GroupMail, but have no further comment at this time.” Google has acquired email marketing software GroupMail, for around $75 million. We first reported on the discussions between the two companies in December. We can now report that [...]

GroupMail updates and plans Jan 2011

Just a quick heads up on the recent update and plans for GroupMail